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GLOBALMalwareProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesRansomwareLockBit 3.xRansom DemandedActor NamedOFAC SanctionedCritical

Maximum Research

bd_7fb0974e5c653111 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Critical

Discovered

Filed

Jan 17, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Maximum Research

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group LockBit 3.x on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Sanctions caution: LockBit 3.x carries US sanctions exposure — OFAC has designated the group or its operators. Public reporting is permitted (informational-materials exemption, 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b)(3)) — but any payment or material support may violate sanctions. Consult counsel before engaging.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-02-09

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

MAXimum Research, Inc. is a market research firm with over 300 CATI stations. Our facility houses a100 CATI station phone room, in addition to 200+ remote agents across the US. Based in Southern New Jersey, just minutes from Philadelphia, MAXimum Res...

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 17, 2024

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.